1 For what man at all had any knowledge what God was, before He came? (DIO) 2 Or dost thou accept the empty and nonsensical statements of those pretentious philosophers: of whom some said that God was fire (they call that God, whereunto they themselves shall go), and others water, and others some other of the elements which were created by God? (DIO)
Epistle to Diognetus 8:1–2
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2 Baruch 14:8–10
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